Barrie making a speech at the unveiling of Thomas Hardy's statue in Dorchester, 2 September 1931: "Well ladies and gentlemen, you mustnât make any noise, or the weather will find out that something untoward has happened. When the child Hardy was born, the doctor thought he was dead, and dropped him into a basket. That was an anxious moment, if we had known it, for our country. But a woman stepped forward to make sure, and found that he was alive. If Mr Kennington had chosen to give us a statue of that woman, he wouldnât have gone far amiss." [soundtrack from video clip]